David Ignatius Quotes
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
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I love working with the Farrelly brothers. I'm a big fan and feel very lucky to have gotten to work with them a few times. One thing that I learned while working with them is that you have to keep your cell phone off when filming scenes, or you owe them a lot of money!
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you're doing, and occasionally I've gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.
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If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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I just love kids. I always have.
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
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If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.
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I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
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Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related.
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I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry!
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You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don't like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War.
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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
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I'm very proud that a woman, has finally been chosen as a candidate for the president of the United States, because I always felt women should be treated like first-class citizens.
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I told coach I hoped this wasn't going to mess up my 100-yard games. I am used to getting 100 yards a lot and I like to make plays and I like moving the ball on offense. They said that we were going to do that there.
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My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.
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As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
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It's never been easier to share your ideas and passions with the world.
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The worm of paranoia begins to eat into even the hardest adversary.
